University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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' 5 N, 13 J 1 The student who did not have a newspaper route to X .9 it carry, a horse to curry, or janitor work to do always , ll 5, V . i 'VF' - lg li.! puff l'N. 5N.f,-sig-2359.5 considered that he might carry additional work, or A, f 1 tN'. ,NAt N stay out a term or so to teach and thus earn the f -.'A 'fi .,Y'i :X ' '1 i i 9' K' money to defray a part oi his expinsles. H A - 4 I I ..'e 'If 2 The lodging question, ecause o t 'e sma size of , 'I X X X , ' Lincoln and the poverty of the students and the state, f 'g 'ggi A ' A I ,, , frre A ,FT 'i w fx '-iA W ' ' was an important one. In 1874, the regents author- I l ,w gg.1f,Wii ized the renting of a dormitory, at a cost not to ex- .U V !,, l 5 We.' 1 ceed 35500, and two years later, a resolution provid- QQ i i ' 'i 'T A' ing that students be no longer allowed to room in the L . i 1 i i University building, was passed. Yet room and board il 1 lx if M ' RAX.X 5, cost 553.50 or S4 a week. To further decrease ex- ' 2 1 .ii.. the regents' in the early appropriated if S150 for books to be sold at cost to students, provided y ,' V ' A ' a local book mechanic could not -be persuaded to f . . . ri ' T do SO- ' 2 l E 9' I Finances for the University itself were also some- ' g fi 1 A N I .. ' , . what strained. All checks, vouchers, and appropria- ,1 - T'i T '-' ' 'i ' J ' tions, even for such trifles as a brush and ladder for 7 I The First Chfmoezwa-s a new rope for the campus pump-around the north- i 4 1,-'il Allen Benton east L of the building, Where romance was wont to ' Edmund Fafffeld l m9 Mamtt stalkj had to go through the oiiice of the state auditor r GegiiifZitgZixLcozzao'1 as well as be passed by the Board of Regents. 5 A Judge Dales, one of the first 'graduates' and a it Q K James Canfield loyal Nebraskan, agreed to give his full time to the Q ,' +,, University and its governing board, and the first oflice if ' , of administration was opened on the first floor -of the old University hall. The land grant act of 1862 had allotted the University 90,000 acres of land, and the Nebraska enabling act had set aside 4, N, F' seventeen sections. Our lands, however, were mixed with the land of the public schools under the . .N E 5,95 management of the state board of control. 1Much of it sold ior 57d aiu gore, andtthgt at 1t0 per cent ' 3, down and the balance in 20 years. The legis ature vio en y o Jec e o ie regen s' esire o separa e F-14' 1 its land from the other, and by the time this board finally controlled its own property, something like ' N 12,000 acres remained. X ' Taxation has, of course, always been the principal means of support for the institution. 'The 31 legislature in 1862 provided for a one-mill tax, and when the expenditure was found to be below 827,000 the regents recommended that the levy be cut to one-half mill. In 1877, by request of the 1 regents, it was raised to three-fourths of a mill, and in 1 Q F i' '99 it was again restored to one mill. At this Iigure it , 1' , X il stayed until 1922, when it was placed on the present . F lump sum appropriation basis. ' E ,ff 1 Fees as a source of revenue have always netted very , ? H little for the coffers of the University. The first an- I 4 l gl l nouncements of the University made tuition free to all 'I 2 X, V residents of the state, with a matriculation fee of 85, . flffk and a non-resident fee of 558 per term. There were ' y i spring, winter, and fall divisions. This non-resident fee, 'z , Q N however, was soon abolished, and not revived until the Q, if 5 fall of 1923. An incidental fee of 552 was, however, lp lf it added in 1879, and the matriculation feels were consist- A 'j ently turned over to the 'University library, furnishing in a steady .growth for that department, so necessary an ' ' gn, H adjunct for an institution of learning. The First Sem- Bot--.1886 T. H. Illarplaml. '90, Q + ' , . . A. F. Woods, '90 Ipreszdent of the Umversity of , , Professors salaries in the early days were compara- Mo,-ylomig and Rgsgge Pound, '38, IDea,'n of the Har- 2 5 A lb tively liberal. The chancellor at first received! 5IS5,000, wmbe s of 'me of the A fi f 1 gi' .. l 5 5 Page 12 ' gs l y 'K -- .. - ,,,,1,h,- H , M. .. .. . .,, . . . . .. .. . -.- , h ,vm-Mm --4, WE..li??L.F4A it -A in 8 'i'l

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.Qt W 9 1 I I 1 I f 1 i t af M1 5 ' v t ,t l V 1 i f t for an organization of five, but justined by the growth in . ', faf later years of the membership roll. Q 'N The new state constitution of 1875 made the office of it lg regent an elective one, and gave these officers authority ll. over the organization of the institution. The College of T ' Agriculture was united with the College of Practical Science, 4 , forming the Industrial College. It was in the office of dean I of that college that distinguished service was rendered by ' Fr Dr. Charles E. Bessey. H ' W Complaints were, however, coming to the board as to 3 the University building. Although it had cost 328,000 It T more than the original S100,000 appropriation for it, it had I ' lf never been satisfactory. It was found now that it was not impervious to rain, and that didn-culty was found in heat- EYA ing. The building was really unsafe, since- the foundation .W had begun to crumble away. The regents were in favor of DT- Chmes Bessey-Neb,.a8,wfs h0m,,.ed bot- 3 gr razing it and building a new 'University hall, but the citi- present Chan- X 5 gy, , , , chica O ., , , pus m the days M V zens of Lincoln, having been informed by two g gone by, QAQ architects that the building was unsafe because of the . crumbling of the foundation stone brought from Robbers' Cave, met the expense of a new founda- ,- 3 tion. The roof was repaired, and in 1883, a slate one replaced the old shingles. Hard coal burners 1 tl l' were installed in the building, and a great improvement was felt, in spite of the fact that the fuel 1 Q had to be carried from one room to another. It was during this epoch, when student janitors found -9 53 the banisters a quick and convenient means of going from . second floor to first, that the cleats were fastened on the banis- 'i ters, after a particularly zealous student had miscalculated the l 3, 3 force, and slid, coal tscuttle and all, into the class room where l 'f gi the students were studying the intricacies of Euclid. ,I 1 Student pranks and student activities were all a part of I the college course then as now. A development, however, I 1 was as necessary in that phase of the college and university J 1 ES as in the scholastic side. At first the chancellor, the deans, and the heads of departments often were a part of the in- F! structional staff. Public examination was required for all X, 1 classes, and attendance at daily prayer was compulsory for 'I EI students, and recommended as 'Avery desirable for the faculty. l . xl V A student was also required to attend some place of divine ll Q The Campus Ben-which once signaled . worship every Sunday under the direction of parent or guard- I the hpm- of Daily Prayer and rolled the ian. These rules, archaic as they may -seem, were in force, X, 1 H Q'f,'f,Qf1:l'f,'ZS'fl'Lgel S' Its MWMfte SfW1ff until 1882, when the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. assumed ' 3 5, ' ' the responsibility for the religious education of the students. .,iix,, The Hesperian Student, the first campus publication, was provided for in 1874, when the Board I of Regents appropriated S100 for its use. Members of the Palladian Literary Society had started the - 1 Hesperian a few years before. Its growth gave rise to other activities, chief among which was politics, X since its editors were elected by popular vote. ' ' ' ' 1 Q The Adelphian Society room was fitted up in 1873 by an appropriation of theregents. Social life of ., 'f J the students centered around the literary socie- 4 ' ' ties, their weekly Friday evening meetings were f A rivaled only by the infrequent shows at the , gg f ol-d Centennial theatre. Palladian had been X1 founded in 1871, but restricted its membership I fl to men, removing this ruling only after a group , of students had withdrawn in '73, and formed ' the rival Adelphian, which admitted women and ! X. .1 even preparatory students. This organization It lr ' later became the University Union. Q WJ Financial considerations were indeed import- ! ant in those pioneer days, both of the Univer- 1 sity and of the people of the state. The regents V X required that each Student have at least three University Union Hall-Typical of the center of social life of - classes daily, and Slllelld Sl1Ch Othel' GX6I'CiS6S HS the early C0'r'n.h'u.skers. In the days when Old Gold was the lla the faculty Should direct. A definite tinle was gbilggglslca Calor and the Scarlet and the Cream had not been 2 L , Page 11 F .. A I b , A R m.-.n...- . ..,, .- if - -i we es. fifj, 'gg 1 ,J 77 -1 7 E it l E u t 4 1 .4 W f jx 1 J A l Wg

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,il n 4 n ' i w' il x A I Q, f U 1 I J , ll . I 5 -A 1 lil, . , 4 U l it 1. .8 V Nt r , ,r , it fi If '1 ,, it z l ., . ri ll ji ll ze . i J il 1+ ly 1 . li l ss, fl it ,, H .e , l,. gh, f pr-1. V 1, n, ,I ,,,, 4 I . .,, If rl? I l 1 if U x v it '-E gl. v a F U l Y .Q bl' 'lvl 1 I .Ml .5-TFT' l H315 like .1--.11L1-sipaar, . an amount which was cut in 1871 to 84,000, and seven years later to 253,500 Professors at first received S3,000, but in 1871 were lowered to 82,000, and later to 5lS1,800. In the year 1898-9, the chancellor was again raised to S55,000, and the professors between 551,600 and 82,000 Added salaries were again appropriated in 1906, 1919, and 1920. The chancellor at present receives 338400, and the professozs avera,e .. ,ut 353,000 Nebraska's real period of growth dates from 1883. Until that time the University had consisted of less than fifteen faculty members, a few hundred students, and a single red brick building standing alone on the boundless prairie. The eastern chancellor attempted to beautify the campus by bringing in a variety of trees, a hedge of red cedar, and Osage oranges' The locusts and cows, however, killed the trees and ate the flowers, and left the campus again a barren waste, surrounding an old and somewhat moth-eaten looking building. To protect the campus, the regents passed a resolu-tion Ellen Smith-Who served the University from 1877 to 1902, a true friend of Ne- braska women. In her 'meniory the center of women's activities !Ellen Smith Hall! now bears hcr name. limiting the number of cows to be tethered on the grounds, but the ruling proved ineffective, and they appropriated S400 for a fence five boards high,-a fence which was never completed. During the administration of Chancellor Canneld, in the nineties, the old iron fence Ctaken down in 19225 The Class of 1888-Taken on Decoration Day in '88. Stout, Schofield, Anderson, Smith, Pound, Rogers, Sarah Harris Wagner, H. Barrett, Kramer, Codcling, Polk, Grace Barrett Jansen. , n was built. Gates of the old fence were locked promptly at 6 o'clock, and any student who loitered too late on the campus, found it necessary to scale the spiked enclosure. The story goes that lthe co- eds became proficient climbers, and that especially so was the leading red-haired athlete of the class of '92 on the night that the Mock Hesperian was secretly distributed. Two gates are all that remain today of the old iron fenceg two gates, one at either side of the east entrance of University hall, and used for bul- letin boards. The old University building, however, in those years, became crowded to overflowing, and in 1883, the legislature made appropriations for three new buildings. Three years later, the natural science department moved into the chemistry building, now called Pharmacy hall. In '88 the cornerstone was laid for Nebraska hall, and the west wing of the Armory was built soon afterward. The old heating plant, however, had, in the interim, become inadequate, and it was moved into the new boiler house, built for that purpose. In rapid succession, the library, the electrical laboratory, the mechanic arts hall, memorial hall annex, administration hall, the museum, the engineering, and the law buildings were erected. That the entire University should be moved to the campus of the Agricultural College was one proposed solution of the prob- le-ni of lack of room, but the people in a referendum voted against it. To counteract the diificulty, the legislature made i W a three-fourths mill levy on the grand assessment roll of 3 g I ., 1 the state for six years, the revenue to go for campus exten- -Q sion. Six blocks were thus purchased, on which later were . ' ii erected Bessey hall, chemistry hall, Social Science build- f fga- . . ff hier I ' ing, and the Teachers College. A large residence was COI1- , . K verted into a Woinan's building and named Ellen Smith wg, hall, after Ma Smith, who came in 1887 as instructor in fri' ' -H-igfl?-l'-15' L L-fri Latin and Greek, but who took an interest in every student and became an unofficial dean of women. The plan of organization and government for the new Nebraska, however, has been the same as that for the small all w H YT 'T' , ' 1 'L itll L ,W 3 ,IJQM 1, X:-'gh I The Old Chapel-Located 'where the English con- sultation rooms now stand in old U Hall. Attend- ance at daily chapel was compulsory. Page 13 lx . l .1 1 F ,. 1 , l ti 3 lu ,Al Q Q fi' 'I k . ,ki W f V , l 1 ,- 1 yi 1 , , I . I h ,W I 1 l 1 I NIQAM . 1, N: A l. 'L , l I, ill fx. 1 . it rs 5 1 l. l ill ,I i' l Q l A